The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-12-28
Proceedings In Court.

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Proceedings In Court.
On Tuesday Of last week, the Court of
Quarter Sessions convened for the trial
of indictments, The following were tried:
The State v. jerome Hornbecker. In
dictment for embezzlement. The de-
fendeut was the tenant Of Caspar Wack,
and by the terms Of the lease was requir-
ed to deliver one half Of the grain grown
to Wack, or to cart the same to such
market as should be designated by
Wack. The oats was divided, except
some tailings. On the part Of the State
it was claimed that the defendant had
converted few bushels OF oats, and
Wack' share of the buckwheat and corn
to his own use. The corn was sold by
the defendant and the money paid to
him. but it appeared that the sale had
taken place subsequently to the date
when the Indictment alleged the CONVEX
sion to have taken place. The defend
ant claimed that Wack's share of the
balance of the oats was ready for him in
the barn; that he had told him he would
use the buckwheat and pay him for it;
and that there were matters to be settled
between Wack and himself, OF which the
corn and buckwheat money formed
part, and he was ready to pay what
should be found to be due to Wack in
said settlement. Verdict, not guilty.
The State v. George II. Locker. In
dlctment for keeping disorderly house.
The defendant has been the landlord of
the Union Hotel in bennington, since
April last, aud it was claimed that he
had SO conducted the house as to render
himself liable to conviction under the in
dictment as found that he permitted
drunken persons about his premises /;
that he sold liquor to habitual drunk
ards, and to persons who were intoxicat-
ed at the time that he sold liquor to
minors that he was intoxicated on his
own premises; that he sold liquor on
Sunday that he permitted noise and
disturbance about the premises and that
he allowed, and himself took part in, the
playing of billiards and pool for drinks.
The testimony as to the selling of liquor
on Sunday was that on one occasion the
hostler at the hotel bought, on Sunday,
a pint bottle of liquor, paying for it the
next day that on another occasion an
employee of the hotel procured half
pint bottle of liquor that man bought
liquor one Sunday morning at 1850
o'clock, and that on four occasions a
man, on Saturday night bought and paid
for pint bottle of liquor, and requested
the defendent to place it where he could
procure it on Sunday moring, and it was
so placed and he did go on Sunday morn
ing and get it. As to being intoxicated
in his own house, three or four persons
testified that they saw him when they
were convinced he was intoxicated. A
number of boys under twenty-one years
of age testified that they had drank at
the defendants bar and had bought
liquor there in bottles. The defendant
insisted that he had never been intoxi-
Gated in his own house or at any other
place in Pennington that he did not
sell any liquor ON Sunday, but that on
the two occasions when employees of
the house procured liquor on Sunday he
gave it to them that he was careful not
to sell to drunkards apd persons who
were intoxicated that there were no
noises or disturbances about his house /;
that he did not habitually sell liquor to
minors, and that the few occasions on
which such sales occurred they were
through inadvertence, aud that the sale
to minors was not violation of the law
It was also contended that the house
was orderly and as we'll kept as other
hotels.
This trial is still on and is only about
half through. 1t will resumed to-day
| "Wednesday. ii Hunterdon Democrat.
"There is fortune awaiting the editor
| who can refer to another newspaper in
other words than esteemed contempary. ~